Los Sauces

The bridge over the ravine at Los Sauces is huge. It’s 319 metres long and towers 150 metres above the valley floor. It opened in December 2004. To begin with, it was rather controversial because it crosses the same valley as the Los Tilos National Park. But you can’t see the bridge from the park, and it’s really rather elegant for something so big. It also knocks a full five…

Here at last are some photos from the sardine’s funeral at Los Sauces. You can see videos of it in the previous post and there’s an explanation of the event here. There will be another, much smaller sardine’s funeral at El Llanito on Saturday night.

Last night the town of Los Sauces officially ended carnival with a funeral for a sardine. Most places in Spain seem to do this, but the one in Los Sauces is particularly good. As you can see, they have a huge sardine. Even better, they don’t carry her sedately on the back of a lorry. The pall bearers make her dance as though she’s in a rough sea. This year…

This is one of my favourite events of the year, even more than Los Indianos. The sardine’s funeral starts at 9:30 pm, and the actual cremation will probably be around 11 pm. I must go and get ready. I’m going as a punk butterfly this year and I need to get some piercings in my wings.